Category: Khajuraho

*Must Read* links for the weekend

Starting with this one by Sandeep which includes quotes from MF Husain’s recent interview. The two that I found most interesting were: (emphasis mine): MF Husain: “…Later, in Hyderabad, in 1968, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia suggested I paint...

Dumb headlines and measured responses

Boston Herald printed an AP news story last week with a dumb headline “Hindus lament divine case of erectile dysfunction” to which HAF had a very sensible and measured response. I was struck by...

On Husain, Khajuraho and moral policing

I wrote a follow-up comment on Jo’s blog following my earlier comment� which I feel is worth reproducing in full here: Jo, First a clarification (which I think is very important): I am all...

MF Husain, “Artistic Freedom” and a sense of deja vu

Earlier this month (May ’06), the Indian High Commissioner to UK, H.E. Kamalesh Sharma inaugurated an exhibition of paintings by MF Husain in London and remarked that the painter was the greatest modern Indian...